Framework · 2011–now · Web Boom
Bootstrap
Opinionated CSS that made every site look like a startup for a while. Still the fastest path to a decent admin UI.
Bootstrap mutated responsive grids from novelty to default while Tailwind ate custom design mindshare. It stuck on internal tools because pretty-enough beats design-system projects that never ship. The fad was pretending utility classes were cheating.
Context
The browser ate the desktop
The web became the default delivery surface. LAMP and Rails made shipping cheap; Ajax made pages feel like apps; SOAP/SOA tried to enterprise-ify the wire. REST won by being debuggable with curl. This decade invented the modern product cadence — and the habit of treating every new framework as destiny.
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Related
Framework · 2006–now
jQuery
DOM peace treaty for a fractured browser world. Mission accomplished — then frameworks ate its job.
Framework · 2017–now
Tailwind CSS
Utility classes in markup upset purists and accelerated shipping. Design systems without meeting paralysis.
Practice · 2010–now
Mobile-first / Responsive
Design for the small screen first. Became table stakes, not a differentiator.